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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read about Seaside Gerardia from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Read more about Seaside Gerardia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-002:
Agalinis maritima
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia maritima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
COMMON NAME:
Seaside Gerardia, Southern Saltmarsh Agalinis, Saltmarsh False Foxglove
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_agma3_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Orobanchaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-25-002:
Agalinis maritima
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Gerardia maritima
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Gerardia maritima var. grandiflora
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Agalinis maritima var. grandiflora
4222
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Look for it in tidal marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rose-lavender
(throat lined with yellow)
Bisexual
Weakly bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-parted campanulate corolla
4 included stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
Flowers in terminal racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
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